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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talok55" data-source="post: 5836688" data-attributes="member: 6684559"><p>WotC tried that with 4E and it didn't work out so well for them.  You need to know what your customers like and don't like about an RPG game if you expect to be successful at selling RPG games to them.  Letting the designers (or suits,etc.) make the game with  little to no customer input or market research and trying to get players to like it doesn't work.  Gamers like what they like and don't like what they don't like and trying to get them to like something not to their tastes is a waste of time and money.  4E was a game that had little in the way of customer input (read Mike Mearls's statements about ignoring playtester feedback) and it was received so poorly that another game replaced D&D as the top RPG.  If they ignore their fans again, they do it at their own peril.</p></blockquote><p></p>